Rehnquist, William Hubbs

US jurist

law clerk to Robert H. Jackson 1952-1953

assistant attorney general for Office of Legal Counsel 1969-1972

Supreme Court justice 1972-1986

only abstention in US v. Nixon 1974 (8-0, executive privilege does not protect US president from judicial subpoenas)

wrote decision for Mueller v. Allen 1983 (5-4, states may grant tax deductions to compensate parents for cost of schooling, even for private schools)

Supreme Court chief justice 1986-2005

wrote decisions for Lockhart v. McCree 1986 (6-3, opponents of death penalty may be excluded from juries in capital cases), US v. Armstrong 1996 (8-1, racial disparities in convictions for crack-cocaine possession are insufficient to prove that crack-cocaine laws and enforcement are racially discriminatory), Swidler and Berlin v. US 1998 (6-3, attorney-client privilege generally survives death of client), Illinois v. Wardlow (5-4, suspect's flight at sight of police may, in broader context, provide reasonable suspicion for search)

wrote "Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Jackson" 1992

2nd chief justice to preside over Senate trial of impeached US president 1999